<TITLE>16. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 After Daniel... There'd been a proclamation went forth and signed by the Medes O Persians that could not be changed, that if anybody prayed to any other god, let him be throwed into the lion's den. And Daniel knew that God's Word was to pray to Him only. So he just opened up the windows and prayed anyhow. Now, he never got back in a corner; he opened up the windows towards the temple. He wasn't ashamed of it.
And we don't want to practice our religion on Sunday, and Monday do something else, or believe in our heart one thing, and come before somebody else and say, "Well, I don't know. I...  Yeah, I think you're right." Be what you are. If you're not, get out of the pulpit, get out of the church. That's right, 'cause you're an indebtiment to both. Say what you are. Say what you believe. Then you have nothing to back up from. You're standing just exactly what's true. Everybody knows your colors. Men will appreciate you, any man.

L-69 A woman might be as ugly as all get out. She might be big, fat, little, skinny, black-headed, brown-eyed, blue-eyed, gray-eyed; one, one way and one the other. But if that woman is clean, lady, there ain't a man in the country but what ought to take off his hat to them if he's got an ounce of man in him. That's right. Because she's--she produces what she is, and men appreciate it.
So will God appreciate a man that'll be what he is, or a man that professes Christianity. Let's be a Christian filled with the Holy Ghost with the Word of God or forget about it. That's right, 'cause otherwise you become hypocrisy, and living a different life. And people will see you run out here to dances and smoking and things like that, and claiming to be a Christian. Then, see, you put a stumbling block in the other's way. See you women sometimes, how they cut their hair and dress and act in these little old dresses on, look like a skinned-down weenie or something, and going out there on the street, walking around with heels about that high, mincing down the street. Is that Pentecostal? Then the--the other churches say, "They claim they've got something that they haven't."

L-70 You are sealed and marked by the Holy Ghost. You're not in the dance halls tonight and hugged up in some man's arms that's not your husband the next night, and come back to church and dance all over the place. That's not Pentecostal. That's hypocrisy. That's filth.
I'm not so much saying it to you, but you realize these tapes that's made here goes over the world. So I just preach like it's to the whole world. When I feel God saying, "Say something," I just say it, 'cause I don't know where it's going to. That's up to Him to take care of that. Just stay with the Word. That's right.

L-71 All right. No, Daniel would not bow down to their proclamation whether he was throwed out of their organization or not. He stayed right at the window, stayed with the Word of God. He wasn't ashamed of it.
What happened? They throwed him into a lion's den but he possessed the gates of the lion's den. Why? Glory. Because that God said his--your seed shall possess the gate of the enemy. Ever what the enemy is, you've got the gate.


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